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After setting up Fiker Institute's research programs and curating its policy agenda, Dubai Abulhoul launched the Institute’s Politics Library in November 2023, currently located at Alserkal Avenue in Dubai, as part of the think tank’s expansion plan. It houses a collection of over 15,000 books on foreign policy, global politics, and international development. Dubai has since hosted a number of high-level delegations, foreign ministers, academics, and speakers at the Library on topics ranging from polarization in domestic American politics to decolonizing international development.

Fiker Institute’s Library was born out of a unique vision: to invite writers, readers, artists, researchers, diplomats and policymakers to question their assumptions about world history, global politics and culture in the modern era. Through its interdisciplinary book curation, visitors are encouraged to critically examine and confront western-dominated narratives that have too often been conflated as universal truths. Browsing Fiker Institute’s collections is intended to be a self-reflective act, an intellectual exercise in pushing against existing political and cultural hegemonies that have guided, and continue to guide, knowledge production in international affairs around the world, to this day.

Dubai Abulhoul has been a regular speaker at international conferences, forums, and events, with her areas of expertise spanning foreign policy, diplomacy, and culture.

Over the years, she spoke at various platforms including the Paris Peace Forum, Rome Med Dialogues, World Economic Forum, Lennart Meri Conference, and the Arab World Institute.

Member, World Economic Forum’s Global Council on the Future of Geopolitics

Member, COP28 President’s Advisory Board

Trustee, Emirates Literature Foundation

Member, World Economic Forum's Advisory Board on the Global Cooperation Barometer